weed used to be legal in the states it was used in jazz clubs in new york and noone had any problem, it was first made illegal when californians and arizonians wanteds to get rid of the mexicans..politicians used marijuana prohibition as a way to send the mexicans back home since they were the predominant growers.....history channle has a GREAT doc on marijuana legalization history...when you see how rascist the origins of the policies are its a real shame... I encourage everyone to watch this DOC its called "hooked:illegal drugs" they pretty much have a doc for every major drug. The last line in the doc is "many states are realizing that the cost of prohibition are greater than the cost of the drug itself" or something like that. Every other drug talks about the dangers and drain on society but the history of marijuana pretty much leaves every one who watches it scratching there head going, wait why is this illegal again. REally an awesome unbiased DOC look it up!

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